Summary

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez denied claims that she is secretly wealthy, stating she is worth less than $500,000 and doesn’t trade stocks or take corporate money.

Her financial disclosures show modest savings and student debt.

Some conservatives on X, despite opposing her politics, praised her perceived integrity.

Accusations of political corruption have surged online, partly fueled by Elon Musk.

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[+] 372 points 2 years ago (50 children)
  • [–] 127 points 2 years ago (11 children)

    I'm glad it seems that many democrats are quitting their Gatekeeping bullshit with AOC.

    So frustrating to see people so concerned about the perception of some strawman caricature the right manufacture for our best fighters that we turn on our own. If it wasn't obvious, they attack her so relentlessly because they fear her and know her potential more some of our own.

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  • [–] 79 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    Nancy Pelosi dedicated the month before Trump was inaugurated to ensuring AOC, a spoiler leftist in a sea of her crony neoliberals, didn't get an oversight committee seat.

    Neoliberals Democrats hate actual leftwing politicians far more than they hate their fascist opposition party. Makes sense, Fascists and neoliberals have the same bosses and take the same bribe checks.

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  • [–] 32 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    A thought I had a few days ago,

    The left is all about inclusivity and forgiveness unless you've made any amount of mispropriety, then it's a race to drop you as quick as possible.

    The right is all about being held accountable for your transgressions, law and order, you do the crime you pay the time, but they have 0 cares about their leaders being held accountable.

    I feel like each party is the watchdog for the others politicians, and the left is way too accepting of the right wings transgressions, while the right wing hammers the left as quick and hard as possible (except we just do it to ourselves!)

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  • [–] 21 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    I'm more moderate and have always respected AOC, but thought she was too extreme to make a good president. I genuinely believe that the president should be someone who wants to build coalitions and steer the country towards a better future without allowing it to fracture. I still believe that, but I recognize now that my way of thinking can't win elections in this modern era of politics. Now is the time for a firebrand - someone who would rather lose than compromise. I would still be worried about civil war if AOC became president, but I'm already worried about that now, so no point in holding it against her.

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  • [–] 36 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    Take a peep into Jeff Jackson, NC AG. Hoping for big things out of him.

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  • [–] 34 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (9 children)

    We would need 60 of her in the senate, or literally anybody else on the blue team, for America to have any hope. Otherwise Republicans will filibuster any spec of salvation.

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  • [–] 28 points 2 years ago* (8 children)

    Which is why, for now, the Democrats need to be pulling all the tactics McConnell demonstrated for them under Obama.

    FILIBUSTER EVERYTHING.

    This is not the time for Democrats to be the Party of smooth-running government.

    Use those loopholes the Right-stealers gave themselves in the rules. The only thing they should be voting for is bills that entangle, delay, or reject Trump's blitzkrieg.

    And if they have to talk across the aisle, it should be to remind them that if they hand the Power of the Purse over now, they'll never get it back and they'll lose all their value to lobbyists, all their stock-market prescience, all their importance back home.

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    [–] 158 points 2 years ago (30 children)

    I think regardless of whether you are Republican or a Democrat, AOC is probably the closest to what a representative should be. Now whether you agree with her or not is a different discussion entirely, but that's not the point I'm trying to make. She's just the only one that actually seems to give a shit about who she represents. Whereas both for Republicans and Democrats the vast majority of our "representation" are crotchety and corrupt old people that don't give a shit anymore.

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  • [–] 45 points 2 years ago (29 children)

    She’s just the only one that actually seems to give a shit about who she represents. Whereas both for Republicans and Democrats the vast majority of our “representation”

    While I agree with almost everything you said, there's really no good reason to make a statement like that and leave Bernie in with the "vast majority" group. 🙂

    The man has walked the walk for a very long time. (Yes he's too old to run for office now, but he deserves his due!)

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernie_Sanders#Political_activism

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  • [–] 110 points 2 years ago* (16 children)

    I think if we don't start WW3 and nuke the planet she's gonna be the first woman president in the US

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  • [–] 75 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (7 children)

    The DNC would murder her if she broke through their primary defenses and got close enough.

    They're fine with losing, the pendulum is part of the grift, what they aren't fine with is losing their half of that bipartisan oligarch gravy train. Our capitalists don't bribe both parties to have those parties stand against economic metastasis at all human cost.

    We can have affirmation ribbons and be sucked dry by the oligarchs, or we can have scapegoating and be sucked dry by the oligarchs, that is the extent of our "freedom." Reagan and Kemp saw to that by getting their former opposition on the take.

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  • [–] 21 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Serious talk. When are people going to start calling them DINOs. Democrats In Name Only from the Jurassic period.

    You think Trump took over the RNC because the old guard liked him?? No he built on the backs of the tea party.

    Bernie and the squad were the lefts tea party. What they need now is a charismatic leader to build on it and kick the DINOs out by force.

    The DNC is not that powerful. We outnumber them. Stop forgetting we outnumber them.

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    [–] 86 points 2 years ago* (8 children)

    Ladies and gentlemen, this is the internet manifest:

    1- blame her for having millions due to kickbacks

    2- when she proves that her net worth is less than 500K make fun of her for having too little money

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    [–] 72 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    I hope that AOC has a security detail, a go bag and plan, and an ideal state to reside in. It is my expectation for Yarvin's Cabel to try to capture or assasinate her at some point, since she is one of the few major lightning rods to be the president of a Free America. We will need great people to organize the defense of our people against the fascist agenda.

    Bernie, AOC, others, stay safe and strong. 🖖

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    [–] 68 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Median property value in DC is $705,000.

    She's likely living paycheck to paycheck as a sitting member of Congress. I like it.

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  • [–] 67 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Man, if you don’t agree with her views, fine whatever. But for people to hate her so much to claim she’s corrupt when she’s clearly not is just silly.

    We live in a stupid timeline. More politicians should be like her. We’d all be better off, regardless of which party they were from.

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    [–] 64 points 2 years ago (49 children)

    That's because she's actually trying to help people, and you don't get rich helping people.

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    [–] 60 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Wait.... Muskrat is accusing her of being rich?

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  • [–] 33 points 2 years ago

    It’s pretty absurd that y’all qaeda bitch about all the money that (insert lib politician) makes while throwing money or votes at billionaires who then turn around and accuse lib politicians like AOC or Sanders of being rich.

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  • [–] 51 points 2 years ago (16 children)

    The pot accuses a bottle of milk of looking black

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    [–] 48 points 2 years ago (15 children)

    I love AOC. I'd vote for her in a heartbeat in primary and general elections. Now, whether she makes it to the general depends on the DNC, and I have no faith that the political consultant/establishment class will let anything remotely progressive through. No money to be made.

    I guess the only way forward would be to vote for her in the primaries to such a degree that the Dems have not choice but to confirm her through.

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    [–] 42 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Accusations of political corruption have surged online, partly fueled by Elon Musk.

    Lol, says the guy who's currently at the top of corrupting world-politics...

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  • [–] 40 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    Can we all please notice how under capitalism, you can refer to people being 'worth' a dollar amount? Money is something you have, it says nothing about who you are. I'm fine with having an amount of wealth, but your worth is not measured in dollars, that's fucked

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    [–] 34 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    There is one group of people who both share the ire of most people and deserve it: The ultra rich.

    I've had rednecks tell me they disagreed with Bernie on a lot but they liked how he hated billionaires. Ben Shapiro's gaggle of yes-men gave him grief for criticizing Luigi.

    If votes count for anything anymore a smart, effective political party would be able to capitalize on this universal hatred.

    Sadly, we have the Democrats.

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    [–] 27 points 2 years ago

    They're so concerned about profittering they support a guy that was giving millions directly from China, took millions in goverment funds by making secret service stay in his hotels and charging them 1000x the rate of any other guest. This guy's will pay their life down for the biggest kleptocrat in US history, but yeah AOC needs to be monitored.

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  • [–] 22 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    That's still 450k more than me

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